By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage TodayPublished: June 26, 2008Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
BOSTON, June 26 -- Among more than 2,000 participants in the Framingham Offspring Study, about one in every 10 have had a silent cerebral infarction, with none of the clinical signs or symptoms of a stroke. Researchers found the lesions when 2,040 participants were screened by MRI, Sudha Seshadri, M.D., of Boston University, and colleagues reported online in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. The prevalence of silent cerebral infarcts (10.7%) increased with age, from less than 8% in those 30 to 49 to greater than 15% in those 70 to 89. /.../
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